Mastodawn

Watchful Citizen Sep 7, 2025

Time is running out.

On Sept 12, EU countries vote on chat control - a law that would make every messaging app scan your private chats before you even hit send.

Only six countries openly oppose it right now. Germany and several others are still undecided. MEPs from different parties are warning this is mass surveillance on everyone.

I'm terrified my kids will grow up in a world where every private thought gets scanned before they can share it. You can't have democracy without free speech, and you can't have free speech under surveillance.

https://fightchatcontrol.eu

#privacy #e2ee #chatcontrol #HumanRights #security

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Watchful Citizen Sep 7, 2025

I keep thinking about what this really means for how we think and communicate.

When you know everything you type gets scanned, you start self-censoring before you even realize it. Not just illegal stuff - controversial ideas, unpopular opinions, anything that might flag as "problematic."

But it's worse than that. When they control the infrastructure, they don't just watch - they curate. Block what doesn't align. Amplify what does. Gradually, the information you see shapes the opinions you think are your own.

Look at China - people there genuinely believe they're happy. It's not just fear keeping them quiet. Years of controlled information flow actually changed how they think about freedom, privacy, democracy.

Democracy dies not with soldiers marching in the streets, but with citizens who've been conditioned to want surveillance.

#surveillance #privacy #democracy

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rtn Sep 7, 2025

@watchfulcitizen Germany needs to step up and oppose and then it's over. Until the next proposal comes and they can vote again.

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Watchful Citizen Sep 7, 2025

@rtn yes. Germany shocks me the most. If anyone should understand what happens when governments mass surveil their citizens, it's them.

You'd think a country that literally had families spying on each other for the state would be the first to say "never again" to mass surveillance infrastructure.

Instead, Germany's new government is wavering on Chat Control. That's terrifying. If Germany - with its history - can't see the danger, who will?

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rtn Sep 7, 2025

@watchfulcitizen I have faith in Germany. Last time I checked all the AfD representatives are opposing (on https://fightchatcontrol.eu)

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Watchful Citizen Sep 7, 2025

@rtn yeah seems like 23 of 96 is openly opposed. Should be more

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Sol

@watchfulcitizen @rtn I believe that some more will very likely come forward like "die Linke" and "die Grünen" and maybe even SPD and FDP. The main reason why nothing is "official" now is because we have corrupt idiots as the government because old people like to vote for "what they always voted for". That parties evolve and change they don't consider even the slightest. And who would have guessed, Germany has a f-ton of old people.